Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"

The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

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If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"
The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Spoil

Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
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